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s Io monly used in the moving of light buildings 3 5 supported and upon which it is being moved.

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JAMES HOLLINGSWORTH, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR To HOLLINGS- I l WORTH a ooUGHLIN, OF SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR MOVING HCUSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,921, dated April 1, 1884. Application filed October 1,` 1833. (No model.)

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Be it knownthat I, JAMES HOLLINGSWORTH, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chi cago, in the county of Cook and `State of Illi- 5 nois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Moving Houses, of which thevfollowing is a specification.

In the operation of moving heavy brick or stone buildings, the capstan which is so comis impracticable, often because room for the capstan and the sweep required for the horse actuating it cannot behad, and more often because a capstan cannot without great difficulty be secured with sufficient firmness to hold it against the power it is capable o f exerting upon the building, and hence it has become customary to push such weighty `buildings upon either rollers or slideways by means of 2O jack-screws planted against objects of resist` ance secured in the ground.

I. To obviatesome of the dificulties attending the latter mode is the object of the present invention, the nature whereof will be fully understood from the following description and the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings, Figure lis a side elevation `of a building being moved by my improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan of the invention. 3o Fig; 3 is an enlarged detail elevation of one of lthe screws; and Fig. 4 isa like detail, showing a plan of the slide-timbers.

In the drawings,A represents the crib-work or pile of timbers by which the building B is C C represent lines of timbers joined together at their abutting ends by side strapplates, c, and bolts c', and forming the slideways or runways, as the case may be, whereon 4o the building slides or rolls. The Ways C C are used in suoli number as the necessities of the case may require, and are prolonged to the point to which the building is to be moved by y transferring the length forming them from the `rear to the front as the building progresses to ward its destination. Y

D D are the slide-boards, which slide upon the ways C when no rollers are used. They are smooth-surfaced and greased, as are also 5o the ways C, in the usual manner.

of which it is oper'ated, and a right-threaded portion, h', at oneside ofthe boss and a leftthreaded portion, h2, at the other side thereof. These threaded portions work in nuts i, inserted in th'e `ends of "timbenpieces I, which are bored out longitudinally to give entrance to the screw. 'Ihe resistance against. which the screws work is afforded by anchor-blocks J, which are Secured to the slideways by metal straps j, taking hold of the ends of pins j', passing through the slideways at openings j. As the building rests immediately or proximately upon the same timbers that hold said blocks J, and as said timbers are rmly bolted together, as shown, the power of the screws cannot separate the sections,I and said blocks may. continue to hold the screws until it becomes necessary to shift the blocks for- Ward nearer the moving building, and byproviding the sections of the ways with openings j? the blocks can readily be changed forward as often as occasion requires. So, also, as each section of the ways is relieved from the weight of the building and the presence of the anchor-block, it can be taken forward and connected again. These operations are repeated until the work is done.

Where it is necessary, in order to secure the requisite power, to 'locate two screws together at each point where power is applied by the use of the double-ended screw described, in reverse positions, each of the men operating them is enabled to do the work by moving hisV lever toward him and downward, instead of lift ing thereon, thereby greatly relieving the labor ofone of the men and equalizing the burden between them. They are also enabled to maintain the same relative position from the beginning to the end of "the work, whichy is an advantage.` Putting the screw between two barrel-timbers, instead of at the end of a single timber, brings the screw often in a more-convenient position for the operator, and the double-ended feature permits the device to be `used either end forward with equal facility.

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The use of two oppositely-inclined threads per.-

mits an increase of speed without change of the pitch of the threads. The anchor-block, being unattached otherwise than by the strap, accommodates itself to the angle of the screwbarrel,whichisusuallyinclined. Thisisclearly shown in Fig. 3. Said anchor-block is readily shifted from point to point upon the runway by withdrawing the holding-pin, and it saves the labor and damage attending the securing of anchorage in the pavement or ground. The movable rest L is sometimes employed to support the screw against the detlecting force of the actuating-lever. boss and to allow the latter to rotate in it, and needs only to be placed in proper position without being attached in any way, being supported upon rollers Z, which enable it to move with the boss as the latter changes position.

I claiml. In combination with the power-supplying screws andv their anchorage devices, the continuous ways herein described, on which to slide or roll the buildings, formed of sections It is fashioned to iit the i of timbers secured together at their abutting 25 ends by straps and bolts, substantially as speciiied.

2. The continuous' ways herein described, composed of lengths of timber and fastenings for securing theni detachably together end to end, substantially as speciiied.

3. The ways upon which to move buildings, in combination with the screws and their anchoring devices, the latter being secured directly to the timbers forming the ways, substantially as specified.

et. The combination, with the way and the power'supplying screws, of the anchor device consisting of the block, the strap, and the holding-pin, substantially as specied.

5. The combination, with the screw, of the supporting-rest L, substantially as specified.

Chicago, Illinois, September 18, A. 13.1883.

JAMES HOLLINGSVOR'IH.

, Witnesses:

H. M. MUNDAY, TAYLOR E. BROWN. 

